binary notation

British  

noun

1. a number system having a base of two, numbers being expressed by sequences of the digits 0 and 1: used in computing, as 0 and 1 can be represented electrically as off and on

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Example Sentences

For example, a four-digit PIN is contained in a space of size 104, which corresponds to 10011100010000 in binary notation, so the entropy is 14 bits.

From Scientific American • Jun. 13, 2023

Familiar decimal numbers, which are composed of the ten digits, 0 through 9, must be translated into binary notation before they are fed into a computer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Numerical information, such as figures from a payroll, can be easily translated into binary notation for storage in a computer's memory.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a result, the machine can count only in what mathematicians call binary notation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the author's nine additions by the usual figures, four were wrong in one figure each; of his thirty-two additions by different forms of binary notation, five were wrong, one of them in two places.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various